Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-11-23
FARM NOTES.

Pure water and a variety of whole
some TODD regularly given, with COM
Portable shelter and kind treatement,
are the best prcyentives of disease.
A mortgage on the home makes
the freside gloomy, fer it shuts out
the sunshine of prosperity and free
heartedness.
Some men look at the sky only to
forecast the weather, see more beauty
in Il dollar than in bed of flowers,
and will hear the crow IN the corn
field quicker than the lark in the air.
Better is it to have one pair or
trousers with money III the pockets,
than two pairs with empty pockets.
The horse knows ali that the cot
learned, and boys tormenting the
colt are not teaching it what it
should know.
System worked ten hours a day,
and was done. Hap-hazard got up at
four in the morning, hurried all day,
and was doing the chores at half-past
nine at night.
Job had much patience; yet it was
fortunate for him that he did not join
fences with II neighbor who kept
breechy stock.
The man who fills his icehouse
provides himself with q CONSERVATION
of health, and servant of pleasure.
What is said about keeping ami
mails warm during the winter, does
not apply to manure, Smoking is
more injurious to the compost heap
than to boys.
The Intelligent farmer, who gives
thought to his business, finds his
mind occupied with matters belong
ing to the year that is just closing,
while he also looks forward to the
season rapidly approaching, Have
there last year been failure with some
crops, while others have been unusu-
ally successful? We should examine
into the failures, not to mourn over
them, but to ascertain if they were
|, 1ue to avoidable causes, or to natural
phenomena beyond human control.
We are apt to ascribe our losses to a
Higher Power, but are we so ready to
accredit our successes to the same con-
trolling influence? The scientific
farmer" so-called. is the sensible
farmer who sees that all Nature, OH
his farm or off of it, is governed by
wise and immutable laws. Those who
study to learn what are these laws.
and how they can best work with
them, areIthe most successful farmers;
they are called scientific"
The English Sparrow is an enemy
of our native songsters AID drives
them away; he is the foe Of the gar
dener and fruit grower, because he
expels the insectivorous bird, and
then solaces himself with the young
plants, the buds and the fruit; he is
destructive to the grape crop, and a
rapacious feeder thereupon. In ten
days, Sparrows in Australia robbed a
single vineyard OF three thousand
pounds of grapes. This bird is all
enemy to the grain growth, and de-
stroys the grain in the milk, as well
as eats and wastes it in the ripened
head. He defiles buildings and de-
stroys the vines that cling to them.
He is not a destroyer of insects.
These boldly festoon the haunts of the
Sparrow with webs, and fasten their
cocoons to them. AT first he had the
reputation of destroying caterpillers,
and the measuring worm. But now
our Caesar feeds on more toothsome
meat. The State Entomologist Of
New York has proven 10y observation,
that the caterpillar thrives where the
Sparrow most abounds, and the same
conclusion is reached by more than
one English entomologist. The loss
from Sparows in England is put at
four million dollars year. In Aus
tralia the loss is greater, and in the
United States it passes computation
Cutting the fodder has the effect of
reducing the muscular work of the
COW. Every movement of the cows
muscles, every motion of the lungs a.
the animal breathes, consumes some
of the muscular tissue and requires
some food to repair the waste. Every
digestive function is also carried on
at some cost of substance for the, re-
pair of which food is required. The
proper preparation of the. food, then
is the saying of labor for the COW, and
saving of food for the owner. Thus,
the grain food should be ground as
finely as possible, and being mixed
with the cut and moistened fodder,
is eaten with less exertion, and is di-
gested with the greatest ease, More
of it, too, is digested, because of the
fine condition oft, by which it is
more. completely subjected to the.
action of tile solvent fluids of the
mouth (the saliva) stomach, and In
testines. AS the fat and oil of the
food exist in exceedingly fine par
ticles distributed in the cellular tissue
the thorough grinding and the per-
feet mastication of it tend to its most
economical disposition in the body of
the animal.
The results of feeding vary with
circumstances. The character and
quality of the heritage vary, and